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Game Blog / Nintendo Ignoring Mario Galaxy?

« on: April 18, 2008, 12:04:14 AM »

Synergy(noun): the working together of mulitple things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects.

That's what the writer from Kombo is looking for from Nintendo. Some kind of Synergy between the big three Mario titles released recently, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and Mario Kart Wii. Not to ruin the entire article, but he would have liked Nintendo to include references between the three titles so that Mario doesn't seem so distant in each. An example he gives would be adding a Galaxy-like move for Mario in Brawl, or a Galaxy dedicated MKWii level.

Read the article to see his full explanation. It has some inaccuracies, but nonetheless, you'll see his point at the end.

Link: wii.kombo.com

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Game Blog / SSBB Brawls Its Way to Number One in March (US, CA)

« on: April 17, 2008, 11:40:59 PM »

In March, Nintendo again defined industry momentum in both home and portable video games sales, according to the independent NPD Group, which monitors retail activity in the video game industry. More than 720,000 Wii™ systems sold in March, representing the highest monthly sales total outside of holiday months (November or December) to date, while Nintendo DS™ also sold through nearly 700,000 systems.

Nintendo also finished with the top-selling U.S. game of March. Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which launched March 9, came in at No. 1 with 2.7 million units sold.

 “Nintendo systems represented 58 percent of all video game hardware sold in March in the United States,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo of America’s executive vice president of Sales & Marketing. “We expect our momentum to continue with big upcoming game launches like Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit.”

Other March U.S. statistics, according to NPD, include:

 * Three Wii games finished in the top 10, including Super Smash Bros. Brawl at No. 1, Wii Play™ at No. 4, and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock at No. 7.
* Nintendo DS has now sold more than 19 million units in the United States alone since it launched in November 2004.

Also, in Canada, Super Mario Galaxy landed the number three spot, while Super Smash Bros. Brawl took number one, of course. Read more here

Source: Press Release

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Game Blog / Re: Top "Brawler" in America Found

« on: April 17, 2008, 11:29:08 PM »

Updated with picture of the winner.

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Game Blog / Re: It Begins: Mario Cakes

« on: April 17, 2008, 11:20:37 PM »

We'll say a good five total cakes per week. Here are the first five (including the one in the original post), enjoy! Users that make silly captions for the cakes get extra coins!

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Game Blog / It Begins: Mario Cakes

« on: April 17, 2008, 11:12:23 PM »

Thanks to Anthony D. for the idea!

Some of us aren't familiar with the craze of Game Cakes, so allow me to enlighten you. For about half a year or so, blog kotaku.com has been chronically posting video game inspired cakes. Now, these aren't your run of the mill, cookie cut-out cakes. No, these are epic cakes, ones that require so much skill you can call them works of art. That's about all there is to it.

What we have here is a few Mario Game Cakes I've found just by doing a quick Google Search. No rhyme or reason, just something fun to get your weekend started out right. Hopefully this will start some sort of weekly deal. If you like the feature, I'll keep doing it. If not, it'll disappear faster than Mario's Cousin Stanley!

Click over to "Discuss in the Fungi Forums" to see the first few cakes!

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Site Discussion / Re: Talkback: Mailbag 17 Apr 2008

« on: April 17, 2008, 10:56:44 PM »

Yeah I had one that would have totally given it away so I edited it out. Oh, and to make things clear:

My emails used to be tagged with "Jesse Salazar 3rd- Awesomest Person Alive", and someone here mistook that as me saying I am the THIRD Awesomest Person Alive, when in fact my name is Jesse Salazar 3rd. So, clearing that up.

BTW, I have a perfect example of what not to send to the mailbag:

"Wohwohwoh! "Every month"? There wazzn't any mailbagzor since novemba 2007! :D"

Lastly, I hate my Mii, it looks nothing like me. Real pixxx FTW!

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Game Blog / Pictures from UK Mario Kart Wii Event

« on: April 17, 2008, 10:54:24 PM »

Here are quite a few pictures from the Grand Mario Kart Wii Event Finals in the UK. I don't remember anything like this for Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, do you?!

Link: photobucket.com

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Game Blog / Four Tracks That Should Have Been in MKWii

« on: April 17, 2008, 11:11:16 AM »

Wild Tyme blog has a list up of four tracks that the writer, Mike Leader, felt should have been in Mario Kart Wii. Among the four, he calls for a generic Mario Galaxy level, and a Virtual Console track. I think that would be have been pretty neat, if done the way he described it. Check out his other choices, and feel free to list some tracks you wanted to see!

Link: wildtyme.blogspot.com

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Game Blog / Re: Handy Brawl Pixel To Polygon Chart

« on: April 16, 2008, 09:42:30 PM »

Heh that is cool, except how they start using character renders and not actual in-game.

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Video Game Chat / Re: Wii White VS GC Platinum

« on: April 16, 2008, 09:21:26 PM »

Okay, not to go off topic too much, but does anyone here believe what some "pro" smash players say about Wavebirds? That they suffer from a delay in character control? Just curious.

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Game Blog / 1up.com: Super Mario Land "Explosively Awful"

« on: April 16, 2008, 09:09:09 PM »

If there ever was a "top" list I would disagree with whole-heartedly, it's this one. 1up.com has compiled a list of games that, in their mind, are the most awful launch titles of all time. Three Mario character titles make the list:  Donkey Kong Jr. Math, Super Mario Land, and Super Mario Advance. DK Jr. Math, okay, I could see that as being a bad idea for a launch title. Super Mario Advance I am on the fence about, considering it was a port. The game scored high amongst reviewers, and I personally had that game in my GBA for a long time.

However, I have to "explosively" disagree with Super Mario Land. Sure, it's no Super Mario Bros. 3, but it's definitely not a bad title at all. It was fun to play, challenging, and had a good soundtrack. I'd venture to say Luigi's Mansion is a better choice for this list than Super Mario Land.

Read on for 1up.com's attempt to legitimize their choices, and let me know what you think about them in the Fungi Forums.

Link: 1up.com

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Forum Games / Re: Things not to do in Wal-Mart

« on: April 16, 2008, 06:32:05 PM »

Buy a CD.

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Game Blog / Re: Rumor: Paper Mario DS Coming in July

« on: April 16, 2008, 05:38:07 PM »

The dual screen 'O' sort of makes it look fake too.

The screen is fan made, part of a petition deal:

http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/pmds

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Video Game Chat / Re: Wii White VS GC Platinum

« on: April 16, 2008, 04:15:47 PM »

I agree with BP, I wish they had made the button's Wii style as well. Keep the color background, but the see-through deal.

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Game Blog / Re: Rumor: Paper Mario DS Coming in July

« on: April 16, 2008, 03:57:55 PM »

There's no way this is happening.

• With a July release, we would have heard about it before now.
• If it's supposed to be a port of the N64 Paper Mario, they wouldn't have it on Virtual Console for 1/3 the price.
• If it's supposed to be a new game, the DS already has its Mario RPG.
  

-Lizard Dude

I have to say I agree with LD on all his points. There's no way a game this big would have been able to be kept secret so close to release. If it is indeed just a "port", who would pay full price except hardcore Mario fans, unless it was simply held within the Paper Mario 64 world, but a brand new adventure? (i.e. same characters, etc).

Finally, I think I remember seeing something where Nintendo stated that Paper Mario is a console rpg series, and Mario & Luigi are meant to be the handheld rpg series.

But, who knows what could happen, eh?